After listening to the whole story.
Frieren subconsciously expressed her opinion.
"You're just a scumbag, aren't you?"
Pfft!
"Throwing people away when you're in a bad mood, you're the scumbag of all scumbags."
Pfft!!
"This is just like after defeating the Demon King, turning around and preparing to kill us all to silence us."
Pfft!!!
Although Diego didn't deny he was a scumbag, Frieren saying it so bluntly still hurt him a lot.
"Anyway, let's not talk about that for now." Diego's eyes dodged. "Do you have time now? I want to discuss with you how to get Alicia to come home."
"...She really ran away from home?"
Frieren still couldn't believe in her heart that Alicia would have such a willful moment.
Diego's nose twitched, and he said dejectedly: "Well, I think I... stepped on Alicia's landmine."
"Being able to make Alicia angry, Dio, you're really something..." Frieren twitched the corner of her mouth and asked curiously, "Landmine... what exactly did you do?"
Diego covered his face with both hands, his voice suddenly rising, filled with collapse: "I... I didn't do it on purpose!!! I didn't have any intention of making her recall bad memories!!!"
"Alicia told me before that she has no memories before the age of nine. Her earliest memories are of blood and a carriage. She was almost killed by demons at the time, and Archbishop Idelucia saved her.."
"The only thing she had with her was a torn drawing with 'favorite sister' written on it, but the bishop said there was only her on the carriage, no family, which made her think for a while that she had been abandoned by her family..."
"Damn it! Yamero——!!! She won't pay any attention to me at all now!! I'm about to get depression!!"
Diego suddenly grabbed Frieren's arm and pleaded dejectedly again: "Please, Frieren, help me persuade her!!"
"Eh——... I'm not Sein, I'm completely not good at this kind of thing..." Frieren sweated, even if she wanted to help, she was powerless. "What about Elga? Usually when this happens, isn't it always her who arbitrates and resolves it?"
"You mean that guy Sui..."
Diego sorted out his mood, his eyes gradually becoming serious.
Whoosh!
In just an instant, Frieren found that Diego had an extra Mabel in his hands, holding her up in front of him.
"Eh?" Mabel completely didn't understand the situation, blinking blankly. "Happy New Year?"
"Go away, sorry, grabbed the wrong one."
As soon as he finished speaking, Diego disappeared again.
Not long after, the world appeared again holding Sui. Diego stood far away, as if fearing something.
"Scumbag! Beast! Pervert! Born this way!"
"In your brain there's only your vulgar beastman!!"
[That's it, that's it!!! Elf little sister, beat him to death for me, if you beat him to death it's on me!!!]
Sui held the King God Sword and kept swinging it at Diego.
Frieren asked in confusion: "She's...?"
"In fact, the first person I discussed with was her." Diego dodged the attacks one by one with emotionless eyes, pointing his thumb backward. "But after she heard it, she became like this."
"Uh..."
Frieren was speechless.
Ignoring Sui's dragon-slaying gaze, Diego scratched his head in depression: "Clearly I've already reflected on it, and I've also properly apologized."
"You've already apologized?" Frieren's eyes showed surprise. "Alicia isn't the type to be unforgiving when she's in the right, is she?"
Diego silently turned his head away: "Perhaps, probably, possibly, my way of apologizing was a bit novel..."
"Novel?"
...Million scene transition...
——Morioh——
"Hahahahahahaha, Jotaro, Jotaro, have you read the newspaper?! Dio has gone crazy——! His tastes are really heavy——! Hahahaha..."
Polnareff sat on the sofa, holding a newspaper in his hand, laughing so hard he had no strength left, coffee spilling from the cup in his other hand.
Jotaro shook his head and replied briefly: "No."
"Then you absolutely don't know what you've missed!!"
Polnareff walked to the computer desk, hooked Jotaro's shoulder, snapped his fingers, and handed over the newspaper.
"I'm writing a thesis, no time."
Jotaro waved his hand and didn't take the newspaper, his attention still on the starfish.
"Uncle Polnareff! I want to see! I want to see!"
Jolyne kept bouncing around beside them, trying to see the newspaper's content.
"What, Jotaro, you're really a buzzkill." Polnareff squatted down, made a funny face, and smilingly presented the newspaper in front of Jolyne. "Here, let little Jolyne see."
Written clearly on it:
"SBR Competition Champion Diego Brando Publicly Apologizes, Admits He Shouldn't Have Been Depressed Over Four Centenarians and Abandoned the Youthful and Beautiful Girl Band"
...
After reading the newspaper, Frieren felt her face turn red, like she was in love.
"You really deserve to die!"
"It's not my fault. How was I supposed to know those dog reporters would come up with a title like this just to get traffic..."
Diego, clearly lacking confidence, only dared to retort softly.
Frieren rolled her eyes at Diego and slightly pursed her lips: "By the way, you didn't do anything to those reporters, did you?"
"Of course~~ I didn't!"
"Good, prepare to turn yourself in... right..." Frieren stared at Diego's face and almost didn't react for a moment. "Ah... that really surprises me a bit..."
"Looks like Dio has grown quite a bit, at least psychologically speaking."
Diego's lips curled slightly, one hand against the side of his face, revealing a creepy smile: "Don't worry, I just borrowed the Freeze God Sword to subject everyone in the reporting department to water drop torture. I believe with my help, they probably won't dare to sell dog meat while hanging sheep's head again."
"...I take back my previous sentence."
Diego tilted his head, his two hands constantly gesturing, almost dancing with joy: "Although the result is bad, the process wasn't necessarily that good either."
"But don't you really think the way I chose to publicly apologize in the newspaper is very creative? Moreover, this really shows my courage and sincerity!"
"Is there anyone else who can do it?!"
"See, I told you to beat him up to wake him up!" Sui was so angry she threw the King God Sword at Diego.
Whoosh!
"Hey, can't hit!"
Such a weak attack naturally couldn't hit the target.
He just slightly twisted his waist and dodged it.
"Cough cough, let's not talk about this." Diego hugged Frieren's waist, sorted out his expression, and cried out pleading again, "Please~~ Frieren~~ help arbitrate~~"
"Umm..."
Diego took out a magic grimoire to tempt her: "I'll give you this "Magic That Absolutely Won't Dirty Your Hands When Cutting Cake"."
"Deal."
Frieren accepted this commission in just 0.01 seconds.
She closed her eyes and pondered deeply.
Diego watched from the side with anticipation.
After some time passed, Frieren opened her eyes again, having made up her mind: "Dio, Alicia is angry because you didn't apologize properly, right?"
"Yeah." Diego nodded, then spread his hands helplessly. "But you saw it too. I went all out apologizing and got nothing. I'm just a little dinosaur who doesn't understand anything. Why treat me like this..."
"A normal apology might work."
"The problem isn't that. She doesn't want to see me at all right now. Even if I apologize normally to Nijika and the others, Alicia won't know..."
Frieren picked up the camera, her tone flat:
"Record."